Motivational Quotes

Action

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Action

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael